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11.23.05Free online scifi movie becomes a hitAs a follow up to my previous post on P2P I have to mention this one. A movie made by students and distributed through the internet becomes (probably) the most viewed movie ever in Finland. Yepp. Interesting times.
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09.02.05A Norwegian movie will be the first Scandinavian movie released on DVD in High Definition!After reading this (norwegian) post things start to be more official. A cinematographer called "johna" states that a movie he has photographed will be the first Scandinavian movie released in WMVHD. I have an anticipation about the very interesting fact that I will be one of the first persons to have a look at this WMVHD version of the movie. I promise to post back pretty soon!
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06.29.05Google Video updateToday BoingBoing announces that DVD-Jon has hacked the Google Video player so that it can play content from other sources as well. Very nice, considering the fact that 90% of the videos on Google are currently unavailable. As a friend of mine, Anarkistix states: "Why release a content service with no content?" True...
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06.27.05Google Video and Media Center EditionNow, I have some suggestions on this one! John Battelle just announced that Google will launch an in-browser video playback feature based on the open source VLC media player. That should be very interesting for both content creators and the people making media center software. Google have some plans They have already launched their video search function and made available a video upload function. They are working on a payment system and now they will announce a player. According to John Battelle they will also include their player in the open source program called Google Code. In other words, the system will ...
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06.22.05Kermit the frog meets BMWThe very talented cinematographer John Andreas Andersen has posted a cool making of from his work on a BMW commercial starring Kermit The Frog, directed by Mr. Stevan Treshow. The location is Calvinia in South Africa. The area is covered by a desert, but the day the crew arrived it started raining heavily. Yes, when an expensive film crew arrives in a desert where it never rains... It starts raining! After one day of waiting, the rain stopped and the desert dried in a couple of hours. Here is a link to the movie (Apple QuickTime required): www.john-andreas.com/makingkermit.mov Edit: "The making of" on YouTube Head ...